Thinking Christian

Several years ago I locked horns with Professor Peter Boghossian and his acolyte James Lindsay over Boghossian’s Manual for Creating Atheists, part of which involves using dialogue to get people to question where their faith comes from. Boghossian’s “Street Epistemology” method has been gaining steam, mostly led by one Anthony Magnabasco who takes video of these conversations and posts them on YouTube. Magnabasco and Boghossian both call this a “Socratic Dialogue” sort of exchange. Which is why I was stunned — literally…

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Links to my talks with FamilyLife on teens and homosexuality, based on Critical Conversations: A Christian Parents’ Guide to Discussing Homosexuality With Teens. The second one was the tough one: On the hot seat, answering the kinds of challenging questions I want to help parents with. It’s easier when you’re not doing it on the radio! But the first conversation matters, too, as an introduction to the issues of marriage and morality, and how to talk about it with your kids. Not…

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It’s one of my proudest claims to fame here at Thinking Christian: Greg West, who runs the famous Poached Egg website, tells me I was the first blogger to link to the site. It was early in 2011, when no one knew yet that the Poached Egg would become the top apologetics aggregator site on the Internet. Greg has been scouring the web for apologetics news and insights ever since then. He’s garnered praise from the best in the business. His site, named after…

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Welcome, FamilyLife Today listeners! Thank you for coming here to find out more about my message on air. I’d love to do more to help you do all you can to keep your kids spiritually strong in the face of gay activism’s powerful anti-Christian barrage.

Mehdi Hasan of The Intercept posted an incendiary video accusing Christian leaders (“mullahs” and “caliphs” he calls them) of promoting theocracy and Sharia. The “Christian Taliban,” he calls it. Someone asked me to respond. This one is by audio. My criticism of this video is very strongly worded, but nowhere near as strong as Hasan’s vilification of Christian leaders. Another difference: Mine is honest and proportionate. I mean that quite soberly.  

Image Credit(s): Unsplash.com/Jon Eric Marababol.

The topic of hell is very much under fire. I wrote about it at The Stream a couple days ago, and it was the topic of this week’s Facebook Live edition of “Contentious Questions (Because some questions just are that way).” Image Credit(s): Austin Neill, Unsplash.